Re: Spanish ll in different dialects

this is so?
Spanish consonants in general vary more widely than the vowels
(rather the opposite of English in that respect), and <ll> may be the
most variant. Depending on dialect it
is either a palatalized /l/ (/L/?) or a full sequence /lj/; going the
other way, it can lose the lateral aspect entirely and gain varying
degrees of fricativization, yielding /j/, /Z/, or even /dZ/.
This is just the mechanism of langauge change at work. All of those
were originally /l:/, hence the spelling, but the sound adapted to its
environment in different ways in different regions.
-Marcos